Ashland City now more welcoming of hippie culture

I really enjoyed the July 21 blast-from-the-past article, "The Farm grows from hippie seminar to a society."

What is always lost in the retelling of those hippies' trek to our area is that they originally landed in my hometown of Ashland City, on a farm off Sam's Creek Road.

The reason I remember it so vividly is that they were such an anomaly in our three-red-light town. You would have thought that aliens from another planet had descended.

Many grown-ups didn't treat them like humans but more like people of whom we should be afraid - very afraid.

People would drive over to their temporary home and gawk at them the same way we look at animals in a zoo. When I think back on it, it's hard to believe how baby boomers' parents wanted to discriminate against them in every way possible. My hometown wasn't all that welcoming, as I recall. Thankfully, Ashland City has come a long way since those days ... loving more and hating less.

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Ashland City now more welcoming of hippie culture

I really enjoyed the July 21 blast-from-the-past article, 'The Farm grows from hippie seminar to a society.'